THE NEW YORKER Rembrandts. Rubbing his hands and glowing, the old gentleman enjoys showing these off to his guests. One evening a week or so ago he had gi ven a dinner party which included his daughter and son-in-law, a famous moving-picture executive, and others. The whole group WJS bound for the loudly heralded première of the movie magnate's latest talking movie. After dinner the host showed the latter over his pictures. "Ah," said the owner of the price- less paintings, "every time I look at them I am lifted up." "1 should think they would give you a great thrill," said the movie dictator. "0 h, more than a thrill-a pang, a pang, sir-right here!" The old gen- tleman pressed clenched hands to his breast. The talkie man nodded solemnly. "1 know exactly how it is," he said. ."? ;';::::::;.';{; :;:X < tr , ' Jm ...: ... . : "' "?..::. ." :: : "?J; ?; :. .: () .::"-:.. "':-::. . : : :} :(: ti ::J !i ; : .... : .., L .. .. ;...:-:. :!i.-::: , , f::J i *, :F "I feel that way about that new pic- ,. . I " tu re We re gOIng to See tonIg 1 t. Fancy Dress W HENEVER somebody like Mrs. William Randolph Hearst wants to appear in a pageant as 1'he Spirit of Literature, she is quite apt to turn, in her hour of need, to the Brooks Costume Company, in Fortieth Street, a most interesting place. There you see actors and other people who have occasion to look like what they are not. Thousands of costumes, incl uding every uniform in the world, are on tap there -renting at anywhere from ten to two hundred dollars a night. A shop like Brooks has a certain verve -chorus girls do cartwheels right on the premises to see whether anything is going to split, Lee Simonson drops in to think up something new for the 13 Thea tre Guild (if that is verve). Or, if you go there, you may possibly run into ] cob Ben-Ami. Mr. Ben-.l\mi always COlnes seven times-has seven try-ons, even if everything is O.K. hy the second or third. He generally brings along several friends to cheer hin1 through the ordeal. Mae West IS another person who always arrives in numbers, with her colored maid, her sister, her dog, and sometimes her la w- yer. On such occasions she is mild- mannered and always consults her maid as to what she shall take and how she looks in it. Brooks, of course, do count- less special costumes for the Beaux Arts and other balls. Meeting the problem of Mrs Stanwood Menken is in itself no mean burden, as her cos- tumes usually cost thousands of dollars. She went to a party not long ago in the simple guise of a vegetable salad- comparatively inexpensive, but hard to I::: : > "^,::<>> .....,l..:".. : :. :. ß '"''::''' . .. .. :':::':""':':''''.:..-::..: ....."".... ...:.. :;.:::: ::... ..} '.':. ::::: g:: ::: . :::: } ........ :::::: . CCCo111e as nzy g-uest-it won't cost you a cent!"